Transgender Teen Stabbed On D.C. Metro By Black Man

At 4:38 p.m. Wednesday, Metro Transit Police were alerted to an assault in progress on a Green Line train as it approached the Fort Totten station. Officers say 24-year-old Reginald Anthony Klaiber, of Greenbelt, Md., had exchanged words with a 15-year-old transgender female before allegedly stabbing her in the back.

Klaiber attempted to flee, but was soon apprehended by police, who recovered a 3.5-inch folding knife from the scene.

According to police, witnesses told detectives Klaiber made “bias-motivated remarks about the victim’s transgender status immediately prior to the assault.”

“Mistreating people just because they might not understand something … it’s sad, it’s just sad to hear,” said Metro rider Kia Lucas.

The victim was transported to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening puncture wound and is in stable condition.

The victim’s friends have no doubt she was targeted.

“I just want justice,” said Jae-la White. “My friend is on the train getting stabbed by a man that’s under the influence [of] something—just coming on the train, wanting to stab her.”

Police say if Klaiber is convicted, he faces a maximum penalty on the assault with a deadly weapon charge, “subject to a 1 ½ times enhancement under District of Columbia law.”

The lengths that some people go to make others suffer because of their own prejudices is just outrageous. This is just sick!